Hello and one for the Red Box politics podcast and The Times, I'm Matt Jolly.

Well we are getting there, there are now only, oh lord, three weeks to go.

Thank you to everyone who's recorded and sent in questions about the election already.

If you're baffled about anything to do with the election polls,

politicians or policies, record a question on your phone

with your name and where you're from and email it to Redbox at the Times.

Kuckey.

And we're going to round them all up and answer them in an upcoming episode.

And you may have noticed there are plethora of frankly inferior political

podcasts popping up during the election. So help Redbox up the chart by reviewing us

on iTunes, but only if you're going to be nice.

Go on do that why you're listening to this week's episode.

So to this week and we go behind the scenes of an election campaign with three people

who know what it is really like.

Polly Mackenzie was a policy advisor to Nick Clegg and now runs the Demos Think Tank.

She explains how a manifesto is written.

James Johnson was Theresa May's Downing Street Polster and now runs J.L. partners he will explain

what campaign bosses look out for in the polls. But first Theo Birch and a former advisor Tony Blair

and Gordon Brown on how to avoid things going wrong.

This week will feature some big set pieces.

The first TV debate and the manifesto launches.

These should be slickly produced moments

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